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Will challenges from right hurt GOP chances to retake Senate?
CNN ^ | December 11, 2013 | Paul Steinhauser, CNN Political Editor

Posted on 12/10/2013 5:25:09 PM PST by mdittmar

Washington (CNN) -- Sen. John Cornyn, welcome to the club.

The two-term Texas lawmaker is now the seventh Republican Senator up for re-election next year to face a primary challenge from his right.That club also includes the top Republican in the chamber, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, Thad Cochran of Mississippi, Mike Enzi of Wyoming, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, and Pat Roberts of Kansas.

If this seems like deja vu all over again, it is.

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CNN is concerned.
1 posted on 12/10/2013 5:25:09 PM PST by mdittmar
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If they are being challenged from the right, it stands to reason that is because they are too far to the left!


2 posted on 12/10/2013 5:26:29 PM PST by chae (I was anti-Obama before it was cool)
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No, challenges from the Right is what will HELP the GOP take the Senate back.


3 posted on 12/10/2013 5:26:40 PM PST by Regulator
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Not if we take the seats with the right candidates. Screw CNN. Screw the left!! Screw the RINOS!! God save the Republic!!


4 posted on 12/10/2013 5:27:33 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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CNN is concerned.
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Yep, the RINO protective activists are beginning to marshal their message. Fear of Tea Party candidates is pervasive among the ruling elite in the country.


5 posted on 12/10/2013 5:29:05 PM PST by House Atreides
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What does Al Sharpton think?


6 posted on 12/10/2013 5:38:30 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Jim Robinson

NOPe to GOPe


7 posted on 12/10/2013 5:38:35 PM PST by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: mdittmar
John Cornyn claims to be the 2nd most conservative member of the Senate.
Yet, as Chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee he
hand-selected these "Republican" candidates:
  • Arlen Specter - Democrat
  • Charlie Crist - Democrat
  • Lincoln Chafee - Democrat
  • Lisa Murkowski - Independent
Also, when he had a chance to stop ObamaCare by supporting Ted Cruz' filibuster
he FAILED
and hid behind a meaningless vote later.

This is why CNN is boo-hooing.

8 posted on 12/10/2013 5:39:05 PM PST by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes everything)
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It will if those challengers turn out to be clones of Todd Akinnor Christine O’Donnell. They need to be vetted.


9 posted on 12/10/2013 5:40:10 PM PST by ScottinVA (Obama is so far in over his head, even his ears are beneath the water level.)
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The wrecking ball for out of control SPENDING is coming to the District of Corruption. Both parties suck badly.


10 posted on 12/10/2013 5:40:20 PM PST by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: ScottinVA

*Akin or


11 posted on 12/10/2013 5:41:04 PM PST by ScottinVA (Obama is so far in over his head, even his ears are beneath the water level.)
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Will challenges from right hurt GOP chances to retake Senate?

Not if the Powers That Be wake up and smell the TEA.

12 posted on 12/10/2013 5:43:01 PM PST by Billthedrill
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Concern trolls are already showing up on FR. A few have already bashed Stockman. And damned Cruz for going to a funeral.

Screw 'em. I'm voting for Stockman, and getting the word out to send Cornyn home.

/johnny

13 posted on 12/10/2013 5:44:59 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Billthedrill

The unions are now funding a GOPe group to defeat the TEA Party candidates!!!


14 posted on 12/10/2013 5:45:19 PM PST by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: ScottinVA

Akin wasn’t the candidate of the tea party, or of Palin (who asked him to drop out).

Cruz was though.


15 posted on 12/10/2013 5:58:29 PM PST by ansel12 ( Ben Bradley-(JFK) told me that "he was all for people's solving their problems by abortion".)
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To: Paine in the Neck

bou-ya


16 posted on 12/10/2013 6:14:14 PM PST by VRW Conspirator (Obama is a proven liar)
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To: mdittmar

Conservatives are growing weary of choosing between the better of two liberals on the November ballot.


17 posted on 12/10/2013 6:24:53 PM PST by clearcarbon
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To: mdittmar

“Challenges” from the extreme left never hurt the commie DemocRATS.


18 posted on 12/10/2013 6:25:01 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (If you think signing up for ObamaCare was fun, wait until you try to use it.)
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To: Regulator

If they were to take the Senate back without having been thinned by challenges from the right then there would be no effective change in the Senate.


19 posted on 12/10/2013 6:29:06 PM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

That’s what those “right wing” challengers are trying to do.


20 posted on 12/10/2013 7:08:37 PM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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